Kimi lost hope for this race with qualifying. Looking back at the race Kimi properly did a great job with his stint on the hard tyres it would have been interesting to see how Kimi would have done if he started higher up.

I hope it's more down to the track. Sure the updates didn't bring the desired results but they all say now that it improved the car though. Also what Arrivabene mentions about S3 doesn't look good for Monaco but I guess that can also be different because there they will have soft and ss.

quoteKimi Raikkonen: “Overall, it has been a difficult weekend, but non a disaster and we learned a lot. In the race today we gained a few places, but I was not very comfortable with my car, as it was sliding around.

Besides that, and for whatever reason, we are able catch the Williams but it’s very difficult to overtake them: they are very fast down the straights and once we get behind them, our car starts to be difficult to handle, much more than when you’re following other lapped cars. About the choice of going back to the ‘old’ aero package, I think it was good for all of us to be able to compare them on the circuit and I was prepared to run the risk.

Maybe it would have been better with the new bits, that is probably the case, but at least now we know about it. So, for the next races, we have to do a better job and we need to have more clean weekends, without any issue, even a small one, to make sure that everything works. We know where we have to improve”.

Maurizio Arrivabene: “The comparison of the two aerodynamic configurations in the race clearly shows that Sebastian’s car was going very well versus Kimi’s. But we need to improve. The gap to Mercedes is there and we need to analyze our data to understand the reasons.

We’re not blind to the fact that we were losing about half a second in T3 only, which puts a premium on traction, and we must find out whether this depends on the nature of the track or on our faults. Strategy-wise, we took an aggressive approach by having Seb stop only twice for tyres. If we had gone for a three-stopper, things wouldn’t have changed or would have been even worse.

The numbers tell us that the new solutions are good, the reality shows that they are not good enough. We did make a step forward, but it was supposed to be a jump. I am not blaming anyone in particular, I am taking my own responsibilities. We need to work harder”.

Our commentators were wondering why Kimi always gives it his all at the end of the race and not since the begining, or since Saturday or even since Friday. They even compared him with those rebel kids who leave homework until the last minute on Sunday afternoon. They are sure that if Kimi puts the same effort he puts at the end of the races since the begining of the weekends, he will end up much, much higher.

So, aparently a piece of a helmet's visor was the cause of the heat in Alonso's brakes, that is pure bad luck, since he had the posibility of making McLaren's first point in him home race. One word comes in to my mind, but I leave it to your imagination...